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What we've discovered is that a lot of business partners see bike sharing as the wave of the future -- and where they would like to position themselves. I'm not sure exactly why this is. Partly to do with employee health, but mainly, I suspect, as the future of transportation.

I don't understand why this is. Probably as a confluence of events. For the same reason that when you watch just about any automotive commercial on television, you see someone on a bicycle doing a cameo ride by.

It's been a great success here in Dublin where they are planning to extend it's range with an increase in stations and bikes. The expected vandalism never happened.

Here an annual card costs €10 or about $13. I have a card but haven't used it much as I have my own bike. Mostly used by people living in apartments or people afraid of getting their bikes stolen in city I'd say.